Florian Hengartner

This weekend I drove to Byron Bay with 3 classmates. I rented a car for that. It's no problem to do that as long as you've got a credit card and are at least 21.
To drive on the wrong side is scary for the first minutes. My aim then was to get on the highway as fast as possible. However I have to say I felt realy comftable to drive on the left lane after to days.

We arrived in Byron late saturday evening. In the morning I've had a couvert with the dumbest fine I ever received on the carwindow.

I was realy angry because of that. There was nowhere a sign on the street or something else that indicated that you have to park this way!

On sunday we went to the lighttower, which is on the most eastern point of the australian mainland. The rest of the day we spent swimming in the waves - that's great fun!
I would have liked to spend a day more there, but not all of us agreed with that, so we went back..
If I would immigrate to australia, than to a place with sea access like in Byron.

Today it's pokertime again - wish me good luck.
see you

I've roughly updated my australia map with some points, i've been or i'll go to in the future - including the tours I do after school.

One week of school is left.
After that i'll fly to Airlie Beach.
There I join a trip which consists of 3 days sailing around the whitsunday islands, then we drive up to cairns, stay there a day and go ahead to cooktown and finaly return back to cairns. I'll stay in cairns for about a week to make a scuba dive course.

Then a friend from school will join me and we fly to Darwin.
From there we do a 14day trip to Adelaide. In the first three days we visit the Kakadu National Park near Darwin. Afterwards we travel by bus through the middle of australia with a lot of short stops and a bigger one in Alice Springs. Hopefully I'll see a lot of interesting stuff.

Wednesday evening.
We are about 10 people from my school - only swiss .. - and are on the way to a poker game.
It's held in a restaurant and without money - the only target is to enjoy playing and win.

There are a man and a women who look after the players and manage the game evening.
It has 6 real poker tables and on each play 8 people.
Game mode is "Texas hold'em Poker", the blinds are doubled approx. all 15 minutes.
If you consume drinks or food before the game starts you receive the double amount of chips.

It's really interesting to play. You see some new tactics, exciting card mixing techniques and it's thrilling to see which player falls out of the game - which not.